2024-01-09 06:30:00
Do not drink a drop of alcohol during the entire month of January. The rule of Dry January is as simple to state as it is difficult to follow for many French people who decide to take up the challenge. But they will certainly find comfort in the expected benefits: better sleep, more beautiful skin, better concentration and more energy.
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The aim of the initiative, which is in its fifth edition in France, is also to reduce the social costs and risks associated with alcohol consumption: liver diseases, cancers, stroke, but also hospitalizations induced by accidents and violence due to “drinking”. This challenge mainly targets social drinkers, who have poor drinking habits and find it difficult not to drink.
READ ALSO Alcohol: what reasonable consumption really isIt does not concern those who are dependent on alcohol and for whom medical treatment is essential. Moreover, in an editorial from January 2022, the medical journal eClinicalMedicine questioned the real interest of these campaigns which “feed the culture according to which abstinence is the only option to improve health and imply that abstinence can be achieved through will alone.
Fortunately, alcohol consumption has declined significantly in France since the 1960s. Long before the Dry January trend. But the latest figures, dating from 2022, still reveal an increase of 1.9% compared to the previous year. A figure which is mainly explained by the progression of beer.
French consumption in 2022
In France, alcohol consumption has been declining for 60 years…
…except for beer, which shows a recent increase. Here, between 2021 and 2022.
Among 17-year-olds, there is a downward trend in alcohol consumption.
Less alcohol leads to fewer hospital stays in the population.
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